Airports Actually Contain A Lot More Germs Than You Might Think

And finding out about the dirtiest part of the airport might actually shock you...

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5 November 2018

|Last updated on 6 November 2018

It turns out airport security trays are really gross.

Hundreds of thousands of people travel through major airports each day so you might suspect keeping them spotless and virus-free is an impossible task – but the worst-offending part of the airport for germs might still surprise you.

It’s not the toilets or even the floor of the waiting areas everyone trudges through, but the plastic trays you put your belongings into for scanning at security, according to a study published in the BioMed Central Infectious Diseases journal.